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Pharyngula reports on the movie "Einstein Wrong"...
Albert Einstein (that poseur) was wrong;
The housewife, of course, has it right.
The film clearly shows that stupidity flows
Just a little bit faster than light.
With the "dark side of physics" exposed
And the world once again seen as flat
The film next unlocks Dr. Schroedinger's box
And discovers what's up with his cat.
Joseph Priestly was also a fraud—
There's no "oxygen"—perish the thought!
And with oxygen pissed on, it's time that phlogiston
Is once again what kids are taught.
The de Hilsters' new paradigm shift—
"The new physics", we call it at work—
Shows a housewife can still, through the sheer force of will,
Kick the ass of a dumb patent clerk.
You may all disagree if you wish;
You may find it a little bit funny
But the most crucial part—from the depths of my heart…
Won't you please send us lots of your money?

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Lamb Kebabs with Lemon and Rosemary
A fillet end of leg is perfect for this recipe.
Personally I like to serve these kebabs with rice, preferably brown basmati, swapping white for brown in the recipe below, and some tzatziki.
The Delia Online Cookery School: Watch how to cook perfect rice in our video, click here to play
This recipe first appeared in Sainsbury's Magazine (July 1996). Serves 4
- method
- Ingredients
First, using a sharp knife, take the meat from the bone – which is very easy – and cut it into bite-sized pieces.
Then halve and deseed the pepper, cut each half into 4, and then halve these again so that you finish up with 16 pieces. Now place everything except the tomatoes into a shallow container or bowl, toss the meat and vegetables well in the marinade, then leave for 24-48 hours, turning everything a couple of times during that period. When you're ready to cook the kebabs, either light up your barbecue or pre-heat your grill; either way you're going to need a good 20 minutes' pre-heating time (and remember to soak the skewers at the same time).
Now assemble the kebabs by sliding a mushroom on to a skewer, followed by a tomato and half a bay leaf, then alternately some meat, pepper and onion, finishing off with another half bay leaf, then a tomato and mushroom.
Make sure you pack them all together as tightly as possible, then grill the kebabs about 4 inches (10 cm) from the source of the heat for about 20 minutes, turning them over and basting them with the marinade juices from time to time.


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Verizon customers ready for a handset upgrade will have to pay a $30 fee starting on April 22, the company announced Wednesday.
The cost will be in addition to the price of the new phone and a two-year contract.
Only users upgrading at the end of a contract, and therefore receiving the discounted price on a new mobile phone, must pay the $30. If a user is upgrading before their contract is complete and paying the full price of the phone, the fee will not apply.
The fee could also be offset, or at least minimized, if a user chooses to exchange an old Verizon device via the Verizon Wireless Trade-In Program, according to the company.
Verizon said the upgrade fee will be used for wireless workshops, online educational tools and consultations with experts who provide advice and guidance on devices, according to a press release announcing the change.
The company couldn't provide any further information on the fee, according to Verizon spokesperson Brenda Raney.
Joining Competitors
The nation's largest wireless provider noted that the fee isn't unique to Verizon. AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, the three other major U.S. carriers, all apply upgrade fees. Sprint and AT&T charge their customers $36. As of April 22, T-Mobile will charge the least for an upgrade, at $18. AT&T just upped its fee from $18 to $36 in February.
With the rising costs of smartphones, it was only a matter of time before Verizon followed with its own upgrade fee, said Bill Morelli, director of mobile technologies and convergence at IMS Research.
"This move by Verizon is not really a surprise," he told the E-Commerce Times.
No More Freebies
In the U.S., where carriers typically absorb most of the up-front cost of mobile phones before locking customers into years-long contracts, providers are beginning to feel the pressure as pricier smartphones now make up a large chunk of the mobile market.
"When smartphones were 10 percent of sales, this was not that big of an issue," said Morelli. "However, now that smartphones represent the majority of sales in the U.S., carriers are having to absorb higher and higher subsidies to continue to attract and retain customers with top-tier handsets."
As smartphones and the networks on which they operate also become increasingly complex, so do the fees, said Morelli. That's especially apparent with new, expensive technologies coming into play, such as LTE networks, near field communication technology and AMOLED displays.
"The carriers are under pressure from the financial community and investors to maintain profit margins, so this fee is a natural end result," said Morelli.
Verizon's upgrade fee still comes slightly short of its main competitors, AT&T and Sprint, perhaps because Verizon has recently endured a spate of customer outrage when it tried to implement a new fee late last year. At that time, the company added a one-time $2 fee for customers paying online, but it scrapped those plans in the face of widespread customer anger.
Sooner rather than later, though, customers are going to have to be ready to shell out a little more each time they upgrade, said Laurie Lamberth, mobile analyst and founder and VP of business development at Lamberth and Associates.
"Long story short, this is a tempest in a teapot," she told the E-Commerce Times.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee's incentive offer to Volkswagen was made contingent on the labor situation at the German automaker's plant in Chattanooga developing to the "satisfaction" of Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's administration, according to documents obtained by WTVF-TV in Nashville.
Haslam, who has been a vocal critic of the United Auto Workers' efforts to represent workers at Volkswagen's lone U.S. plant, has long denied suggestions that tax credits, grants and other incentives were tied to the union being rejected at the factory.
But an Aug. 23 summary of a nearly $300 million package, obtained by WTVF, carries a disclaimer toward the top of the page: "The incentives described below are subject to works council discussions between the State of Tennessee and VW being concluded to the satisfaction of the State of Tennessee."
Clint Brewer, a spokesman for the state Department of Economic and Community Development, told WTVF in an email that the incentive offer was based on "concerns we had at the time about process."
"In August 2013, it was unclear whether a works council was possible under U.S. law," he said. "The offer did not preclude the creation of a works council or union representation as a condition for the incentives."
Volkswagen wants to create a German-style works council at the plant representing both salaried and blue-collar workers. But to do so, it has said it must work with an independent union, so it called for a three-day vote on UAW representation in February.
The UAW lost that election 712-626 amid heavy opposition from anti-labor groups and GOP politicians, who warned that the Republican-controlled state Legislature was unlikely to approve incentives if the UAW won. It was also revealed in the days before the vote that the state's incentive offer had expired after 90 days, though top Haslam administration officials denied any link to the UAW vote.
Also, Republican U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., repeatedly claimed that Volkswagen would announce an expansion at the plant within two weeks of the union being rejected, despite denials from VW management that the two issues were linked. No expansion has been announced in the weeks that have followed the vote.
The UAW is challenging the election to the National Labor Relations Board, which has scheduled a hearing in Chattanooga later this month on the basis that "politicians and outside special interest groups" had swayed the election.
The state's offer sheet, marked confidential, incudes $207 million in cash and cash equivalents and $93 million in tax credits for Volkswagen to add 960 production jobs and 240 contractor positions at the plant.
UAW regional director Gary Casteel said that the documents confirm the union's claims of a coordinated anti-union campaign.
"It's obvious that the state was threatening or at least intimidating Volkswagen," he said. "To get the incentives, they had to change their business model."
Casteel said the documents should put "pressure on the state to do what they should have done in the first place — and that's give the incentives with no strings attached, just like they would any other company, union or non-union."


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Photo by Terri Kramzar |
I have spent last few days working on my indoor garden. Among all the indoor plants I have, orchids in particular have caught my attention this past year or two. I always thought they were difficult to grow, and them being so expensive, at the nurseries, I never even gave them a second look. What if I kill it? All that money would go to the compost bin. Instead of learning about them, the fear of wasting my money and failing always stopped me from trying.
It all changed when a friend brought a white orchid as a 'thank you' gift. That orchid stayed fresh, in bloom for months! On top of that, now that I live close to the Longwood Gardens, I have had many chances to go their annual orchid extravaganza show and be inspired.
But having a gifted orchid and all those inspirations still did not change a thing! After the orchid was done blooming, I did not know what to do. I did not go on line or purchase a book on how to take care of an orchid. It seemed too boring to watch that plant grow at a snail's speed and wait for it to re-bloom. So it sat where it was, neglected for a long time. Generally, I talk to my plants! Yes I do, I watch them very closely... every new leaf, every new stem, every pest and every flower - nothing goes without being noticed. But this poor white orchid became an orphan. It dried out and at some point, after two years of not flowering, I considered tossing it in the compost pile.
Last September another friend, who I don't get to see often enough, brought me a gift. It was a complete random act of kindness on her part. She came at my door step, totally unexpected and brought me an orchid!
Now I had two orchids to watch slowly growing. This new one had so many buds still waiting to bloom, it excited me enough to look up on line on how to take care of it. I learned to water, fertilize and find a perfect spot in the house for this new member. It bloomed until I started putting Christmas decorations out! That was almost four months! I had made this orchid live for four months! Not only that, I notice what looked like a new shoot for the next bloom! What? I could actually make an orchid live in my house and rebloom? That was almost impossible! So I watched it grow, watered it once a week and fertilized when I remembered, a new leaf came and then that shoot grew buds! I left for Canada and when I came back, it was blooming!
A success!
This is how it looks this week! It's second time blooming within eight months being in my home!
I couldn't be happier!
Now here is the problem. Well, some would call it that but I think it's a blessing! Our local produce center sells orchids for next to nothing!
Since I have gained confidence in growing them, I bought few more!
I figured, I am learning as I go and they are fun to grow. They were so rooted in already, I decided to re-pot them. I read on American Orchid Society's website that it's best to re-pot them in early spring or summer. I bought clay pots from local Walmart for $1.99 and special Orchid-mix from the hardware store.
Check this out, it has freckles! This one already started budding a new shoot! |
I had an antique plant stand I picked up a while ago from a Goodwill store for $4.95 - which became a perfect stand to keep them up right. Now there is enough air circulating around them.
All happy in one place!
My poor white orchid, was re-potted last fall just when the temperatures were about to dip.
I have learned that orchids are easy to grow as long as you keep them away from direct sun, near north facing window, don't let them dry out and keep the potting material moist but not soggy. Watch for the new buds just below the spent flowers. I made a mistake of cutting the stem back all the way down on my white orchid. I am still waiting for a flower stem to grow.
It is a little slow at growing but I have a feeling it will survive with it's new roots and leaves. Especially now that I have started 'talking' to it.
I hope I have encouraged you to try something you thought you would never do.
I know you are also wondering what is that first picture for? Check out my friend Terri's post today. It will inspire you to try something new in that area too. I know I am and can't wait to try it myself.
Have a happy day you all!


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Dear Commons Community,
The New York Times has an editorial expressing caution about expanding the number of charter schools. Citing recent studies conducted at Stanford University, charters have not performed on average any better than traditional public schools and monitoring by state agencies has been lax.
"The charter school movement gained a foothold in American education two decades ago partly by asserting that independently run, publicly financed schools would outperform traditional public schools if they were exempted from onerous regulations. The charter advocates also promised that unlike traditional schools, which were allowed to fail without consequence, charter schools would be rigorously reviewed and shut down when they failed to perform.
With thousands of charter schools now operating in 40 states, and more coming online every day, neither of these promises has been kept. Despite a growing number of studies showing that charter schools are generally no better — and often are worse — than their traditional counterparts, the state and local agencies and organizations that grant the charters have been increasingly hesitant to shut down schools, even those that continue to perform abysmally for years on end.
If the movement is to maintain its credibility, the charter authorizers must shut down failed schools quickly and limit new charters to the most credible applicants, including operators who have a demonstrated record of success.
That is the clear message of continuing analysis from the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University, which tracks student performance in 25 states. In 2009, its large-scale study showed that only 17 percent of charter schools provided a better education than traditional schools, and 37 percent actually offered children a worse education.
A study released this week by the center suggests that the standards used by the charter authorizers to judge school performance are terribly weak.
It debunked the common notion that it takes a long time to tell whether a new school can improve student learning. In fact, the study notes, it is pretty clear after just three years which schools are going to be high performers and which of them will be mediocre. By that time, the charter authorizers should be putting troubled schools on notice that they might soon be closed. As the study notes: "For the majority of schools, poor first year performance will give way to poor second year performance. Once this has happened, the future is predictable and extremely bleak. For the students enrolled in these schools, this is a tragedy that must not be dismissed."
Currently, only 6 percent of all schools are charter schools, and charter networks account for only about one-fifth of that total. States that are in a hurry to expand charter schools should proceed carefully. The evidence of success is not all that ample."
A word of caution indeed!


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Index Attention Automaticity Memory Mental Imagery Language Decision Making Perception Statistical Concepts |
Instructions for the
Variable | Settings |
Type of Prisoner's Dilemma | The scenario you can use. Current: Traditional and Evil Priate |
Number of Trials | Number of times the scenario will be repeated. |
Pattern of Computer Responses | The way the computer will respond to the users choices. Current only random and experimenter input (Entered Pattern) are implements. In entered pattern a button will appear to allow the experimenter to determine if the computer will defect (compete) or stay silent (cooperate) for each trial. |
Delay between trials | How long of a break is there between two trials. From .25 to 2 seconds. |
After you have finished making your settings, press the Done button at the bottom of the screen. The Prisoner's Dilemma experiment screen will then be presented.
Instructions will be presented describing the scenario. At the bottom half of the screen the outcomes will be summarized. Pressing the start button will begin the experiment. When started, button will appear to allow the participant to respond. A summary table will appear tracking their last responses and outcomes and the computers and the current total outcome.
At the end of the experiment, your results will be presented. You can also get your trial by trial results. In the response part of the trial results, a null indicates that no selection was made. Closing your results window(s) will take you back to the setup window so you can run another experiment.
Click here to start the experiment.


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So, since my last long overdue post, I've quit my job, had our baby, finished up the Cubbies year, and had my radioactive iodine (RAI or I-131) treatment for thyroid cancer. (Caution: that link goes to a Wikipedia page, complete with a lovely picture of a cancerous tumor-studded thyroid. Oh ye weak of stomach, thou art warned. Oh, and if you're preparing to go through the thyroidectomy surgery, do NOT look at/for images beforehand. Really. Trust me on this.)
The treatment took place on Monday, June 25th. (This will be a lot of dates and dosages, mainly for me to remember [Ha!] what happened, and for the benefit of anyone else going through the same thing.)
I went off of my Synthroid (thyroid replacement medication) on May 28th. I had been on 150mcg, still working my way down from the pregnancy dose of 275mcg. I started a low iodine diet (LID - more informational post to follow) on Monday, June 11, and did the very last breastfeeding for Madeline (oh yeah, I had a girl, named her Madeline Joy :D ) on Wednesday, June 13th. My husband Aaron and I had an appointment with the hospital physicist, who oversees the radiation safety, and the nuke med nurses, Jan and Trent, on Monday, June 18th. They were wonderful about answering all of our questions, reassuring us about any trepidation, and just plain letting us know everything that was going to happen and what to expect.
After that, I received a short call from the nuclear radiologist who would be setting my dosage, and he had me go in for lab work to see what my TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone, that is now provided by Synthoid due my thyroid being MIA) level was. During the call, he told me that my TSH level would not be near the level he required for this treatment (60), as I was far too "perky". He said that if I was high enough, I wouldn't have answered the phone and wouldn't have the energy to crawl out of bed. I tried to tell him that I have fibromyalgia and years of experience with fatigue, not to mention a five-month-old to care for, but he kept talking over me and said I had too much "pep" (he has now been dubbed Dr. Pepper, privately). He apparently called my primary care physician (PCP) to order the lab work. Now, I haven't seen my PCP or anyone in her office since... September, maybe? So, while I thought that my endo was sending reports to them, I personally haven't given them any updates on where we were in regards to my health or the cancer treatment. Anyway, I went in to the office and left my donation of blood. The next day, I received a call from my endo's office. My TSH level, which I was told would be nowhere near 60? Over 100. The lab tested it twice to be sure. And they don't measure, or at least report exactly, anything over 100. (Too much pep, eh? Vindication!) They thought I had gone off of the med (yes, I had called them) for the treatment, but wanted to double check. By the way, the recommended level is 0.3 to 3.0, so... yeah. A wee bit high.
Anyway, my level was high enough for the treatment ( :insert more gratuitous laughter at being too "peppy": ), so after some back and forth, we set it up for Monday, June 25 at 6:30 in the morning. Blech. Sooo not a morning person. But, whaddya gonna do.
One (four, actually, but they can condense into one basic conversation) more phone call from the nurse on Sunday. She had gotten the room all shrink-wrapped for me and then remembered - the pregnancy test! Radiation during pregnancy = mega not good. So we had to make a quick run to the hospital for a blood draw to make sure I wasn't pregnant. (TMI warning: My last visit from Aunt Flow had been a week before, and we had abstained since then, as my dear husband didn't want anything to deter me getting a treatment that will get rid of this cancer. So we knew I wasn't pregnant, but the hospital still needed the test, to be 200% sure. I don't normally give out this much info, but with the very little I've had to go on in regards to others' experiences, I want to put as much out there as is reasonable, for any other people who have to go through this and are looking for any and all information to soak up.) Then one last evening at home with my husband and daughter. One last night to sleep next to my love.
The next morning we were off to the hospital...


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Each year, these prints are my little labor of love. This year's holiday card began almost one year ago, at the beginning of 2015. While shooting a project for Tiffany & Co., we had the opportunity to rent a private helicopter to get aerial shots of Manhattan. I learned two things from that early winter morning ride: 1. I am deathly afraid of helicopters and 2. I wanted this year's holiday card to be a print of my great love, New York City. Looking down on her from this birds eye view gave me a new visual sense of the layers of history in this city from which we build our own futures. I understood her in a new way and that's what I wanted to capture.
Considering there is not enough Xanax in the world to get me in a helicopter again, I had to find a new strategy for shooting at this high but intimate angle. Though I love the views from the obvious choices—Empire State Building and Top of the Rock—they didn't give me the towering sense I was seeking. From the tops of those iconic buildings, the city is dwarfed and dense, slightly out of reach. As luck would have it, our friends from The New Potato were hosting a party with Riviera Events on the 68th floor of the newly completed Four World Trade Center. It's one of those moments in life where everything falls into place, as if designed by destiny. Here we are in the Financial District, where we work, standing in a building that is part of the present, looking down on the past. It was just what I wanted.
It was an incredibly difficult shot to take. Using a Linhof 4×5 film field camera, the cityscape was not bright enough to register on the ground glass where you do your framing and focus check. Only a few faint street lights were visible for me to use as a rough guide but for the most part I was shooting blind. This also applies to metering: I had no way of knowing if I would be right on the money or not, so I just applied what I knew about the sensitivity of film to light and my experience with it the past 19 years. The image that ultimately made the final print was a 5 minute exposure on Ilford Delta 400ISO film.
After the image was captured, we packed up and headed to my favorite darkroom in Boston for printing (which made for a great 24 hour Snapchat story!)


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Here's a description of Weather Kid Sid DVD:
Rain, rain, go away; Sid the Science Kid wants to play! Sid s not too happy when rain threatens to squash his play date outside. But the more Sid learns about the rain, the more he understands how important precipitation is. In fact Sid is learning about all kinds of weather patterns and how it affects our world. At school Sid studies the sun and how it lights up our world. At home, Sid s family visits relatives where it s really chilly. Brrrr! It s cold in here... Sid hits the science lab to discover that wind, rain and sun can be fascinating and fun!
And here's a description of Sid's new tv episode, the No School SingAlong Special:
Sid wonders what he could possibly do on his day off from school. But when all his friends come over for a play date, they quickly put their science minds together and decide to put on a show in the backyard! They each take turns rocking out as they sing their favorite science songs for a very appreciative audience of Mom, Dad, and Zeke!
Here's a special preview:
The show debuted on June 21; check your local PBS listings for replay dates.
Disclosure: I did not receive a sample or monetary compensation for this post. Product information is provided by the featured company/product and is clearly indicated as such. The views and opinions expressed here are my own.


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(CNN) -- For young children in drought-stricken areas of Kenya, primary schools providing free lunchtime meals are operating as "life-saving centers" in communities where food is increasingly scarce.
But with schools due to close throughout August for the summer holidays, aid agencies warn this vital lifeline could be lost just when it is needed most.
"The situation is desperate," says Victor Koyi, National Director of the ChildFund aid agency in Kenya. "If schools close, children are put at ultimate risk, they are made vulnerable and the risk of death is, frankly, very real in those situations."
While the world's attention is drawn to southern Somalia -- where the United Nations has declared a famine -- the government of Kenya has declared its own state of emergency.
According to ChildFund, there are around 3.5 million people in Kenya currently facing food insecurity, with children under five making up a third of that number.
The drought has already forced the early closure of a number of primary schools in the region of Turkana -- considered the epicenter of the drought -- simply due to a lack of food.
Many more have been "teetering on the brink of closure, due to the lack of resources," said Koyi.
"The government released more funding for schools in the past few weeks, but the severe effect of the drought has caused a situation where there is insufficient supplies of food in the area," he said.
The Kenyan government currently funds three types of school feeding programs across the country, in collaboration with the U.N. World Food Program.
According to Global Child Nutrition Foundation the programs have long proved effective in improving school enrolment and stabilizing school attendance, as well as increasing completion rates in primary schools.
But what was previously a tool to improve education standards has become the only means of survival for many families, says Suguru Mizunoya, UNICEF's chief of education in Kenya.
"In some of the more arid areas in Kenya, schools are actually functioning as feeding centers, life-saving centers," he said.
"It's one of the two food sources in the community. So if you close this down, it will accelerate the acute food-shortage situation.
"We are pushing and everyone is trying their best to keep schools open without any breaks," he continued. "In many cases children are only eating one meal a day and for many this happens to be the school meal."
Kenya's government agencies are currently deliberating whether to keep schools open during the month of August. In the meantime, schools funded by international aid agencies, which are still able to provide free food, have seen a sudden influx of students desperate to enroll.
"Last week we saw a school with a normal enrolment of around 150 shoot up with enrolment numbers of close to 250," said Koyi.
ChildFund is currently supplying food to 278 schools and community development centers, feeding around 22,000 young children across Kenya. It plans to keep its food program running throughout the school summer holidays, but Koyi worries it will not be able to cope with the increased demand.
"In the current state and with such limited resources available to other schools, the enrolment numbers I anticipate will double to close to 50,000 in the next few months," he said.
"But unless we have the resources we will desperately be failing," he continued. "The implication of this, is that children are no longer guaranteed a meal. The situation becomes dire and desperate."
He added: "We are appealing to the international community to come to our aid to stretch our hands further so we don't give up on the people who are dying in numbers."


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It's about time to check in at Kringla Bakeri Og Kafe and see what's new!
The quaint little bakery and sandwich shop may be small in size. (Seriously. Tiny.) But it's big on offerings!
In fact, it features some of the most unique and beloved treats in all of Disney World for many guests.
In addition to some fantastic sandwiches, there are some pastries here that have achieved Disney Food Blog legendary distinction…
We've talked extensively about how awesome that creamy, custardy, coconutty schoolbread is here. And you can't forget the rice cream, jam filled waffles, and lefse.
New! Viking Mousse
But recently, I stopped into the shop to see what was new (updating our Disney Food Blog Guide to Epcot Snacks, of course!), and a different treat caught my eye.
And how could it not? I mean, look at the awesomeness that is Viking Mousse.
There was no way I could walk away from this. C'mon, people. It has HORNS! I couldn't wait to bust inside and check it out.
And in truth, this is actually a fairly simple dessert: a chocolate mousse dome, twin tuile cookie horns, and a garnish of toasted coconut.
But once you get a fork into it, you realize that the outer coating is a thin layer of dark ganache covering the mousse center. There are no surprises; just deep, rich, chocolate mousse. And that was fine with me.
Because really, does everything need a filling? The mousse is the consistency of a thick, whipped ganache. Super decadent. And beyond that, anything else would be overkill.
So just in case you can't tell yet, I thought this was a thoroughly fun addition to the already beloved bakery in Norway! It has everything — it's delicious, it's a good portion size that won't leave you feeling too heavy, and it's pretty stinkin' adorable. It's certainly not the most original dessert that I've had at Disney. I mean, mousse with cookies. But the clever themeing makes this something really special. So if you are craving chocolate at Epcot and I can definitely recommend this delicious dessert.
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Hot off the presses this month are adventures with a crew of potty pirates on a madcap bedtime escapade and a pet-mad girl with a two-tone dream.
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Pirates in Pyjamas Written by Caroline Crowe and illustrated by Tom Knight
A pirate in a onesie? Surely not…
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If you have ever wondered whether pirates wear pyjamas when it's time to say goodnight, then set sail on board the Leaky Parrot to find out. Captain Grotbeard, Rotten Roger, Hairy Hank and the rest of the motley crew love nothing better than bubble baths, jim-jams and pillow fights. So if you want to be a pirate you don't need a patch or sword, just grab your best pyjamas and a bed to climb aboard.
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Katie McGinty Wants a Pet! by Jenna Harrington and Finn Simpson
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Katie McGinty has waited years to be big enough to have her very own pet. But she doesn't want an ordinary pet. Hamsters, cats and dogs are a no, no. What she wants more than anything else in the world is a zebra, a zebra who slurps spaghetti and has a penchant for pizza, sleeps in her bunk bed and swims in the local swimming pool. And Katie is determined she's not leaving the shop without one… or maybe even two!
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Errors help spoil Jackson's chances vs. Brewers
MILWAUKEE -- Dale Sveum has met with the players, they've done the drills, they've practiced the plays, and they have the talent, which is why Saturday's game -- and this season -- is so frustrating.
The Brewers took advantage of the Cubs' sloppy play to post a 5-1 win in front of a sellout crowd of 42,230 at Miller Park in what looked like a repeat of past games this season.
"It seems to be the story every night," the manager said. "It seems to be continuing that we can't seem to catch the ball or make a play when we have to make a play. Edwin [Jackson] pitched a great game, but he was part of that, throwing the ball into center field. We've got to step up and somebody has to start making plays and driving runs in because this is obviously getting old."
Jackson's throwing error in the sixth led to two of the Brewers' runs and was one of three miscues by the Cubs in the game. Of the five runs scored, four were unearned.
"I've talked," Sveum said about how he's dealt with the Cubs. "We've been doing this quite a bit. You don't want to have meetings every night."
Maybe the problem is youth? Shortstop Starlin Castro committed his fourth error.
"We're making a lot of the same mistakes," Sveum said. "Obviously, they're young, but we're making mistakes that rookie ball people make."
Jackson, who signed a four-year, $52 million contract this offseason, took the loss. It's the first time the right-hander has opened a season winless in his first four starts since 2007 when he went 0-8 with the Rays.
"Everybody knows they can make plays," Jackson said. "It's nothing that anyone is panicking over. Clearly, we have to play better and execute better. It's not an issue that anyone is panicking over. I can't speak for everyone, but nobody is panicking. We just have to make the plays when we have a chance."
Milwaukee's Hiram Burgos picked up his first win in his first Major League start. Sveum said the Cubs knew what to expect from the rookie. They had watched plenty of video, had seen the right-hander pitch in the World Baseball Classic.
"Guys aren't going cold turkey tonight," Sveum said. "He's a finesse-type guy, and a guy who throws strikes and nothing overwhelming."
He managed to subdue the Cubs until the fourth. Castro singled with one out, advanced on Anthony Rizzo's groundout and scored on Alfonso Soriano's single. It was Soriano's second RBI of the season. He entered the game 1-for-12 with runners in scoring position. He's not alone. The Cubs collectively have struggled and are batting .148 with runners in scoring position, the lowest average in the Major Leagues.
To compound matters, they rank among the National League leaders in errors, and added to that total in the fifth. Logan Schafer reached second on a miscue by Soriano, who misjudged a ball. Martin Maldonado walked and both runners moved up on a groundout. Pinch-hitter Blake Lalli then hit a grounder to Rizzo, who fumbled the ball, but recovered in time to flip to Jackson to get Lalli at first. A run scored on the play and Maldonado scored when Castro misplayed Norichika Aoki's grounder for another error.
Ryan Braun was at first with one out in the sixth when Jonathan Lucroy hit the ball back to Jackson, who spun to throw to second but double-clutched. The ball sailed into center field for the Cubs' third error. Braun reached third on the play and scored on Schafer's sacrifice. Maldonado added an RBI single.
"I think it's just a matter of slowing the game down," second baseman Darwin Barney said. "Starting pitching has done such a great job and a lot of the jams they've been in have been attributed to miscues. It's unfortunate. I think a part of it is pressure. I think guys are putting a little too much pressure on themselves and they take that onto the defensive side. As a unit, we need to be better from pitchers to infielders and just all around. It just comes with slowing the game down and being confident and just making the routine plays and keeping them routine."
Soriano also felt the Cubs may be pressing.
"I think we're better than this," Soriano said. "I think we're trying too much. That's why the team isn't doing well so far. I think everybody is pushing too much and trying to do too much. We have to come back tomorrow and be relaxed and just let the talent play the game."
In Spring Training, the Cubs knew they had a rough schedule in the first month and needed to get off to a good start.
"Everybody in this clubhouse, we want to win so bad, we want to show the other team and the fans that we can do it," Soriano said. "I think that's our mentality here. We just have to play the game and have fun and not try to do too much and not worry about making mistakes and play the game."
The Brewers began the season 2-8, and have won six in a row.
"That's what drives me crazy, the coaches crazy," Milwaukee manager Ron Roenicke said. "We try to figure things and how to get the team going and next thing you know they do it themselves. It's baffling, this game's very baffling."
Sveum would like to see the players figure it out. He said he has "options" if the mistakes continue. He admitted to becoming impatient with the poor play.
"To win in the big leagues, you have to have people who perform, and perform 162 games, not once in a while," Sveum said. "You have to perform. It's the big leagues. Otherwise, you lose your jobs."


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Person Interviewed: Mary Grayson
Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Age: 83
I am what we colored people call a "native." That means that I didn't come into the Indian country from somewhere in the Old South, after the war, like so many Negroes did, but I was born here in the old Creek Nation, and my master was a Creek Indian. That was eighty three years ago, so I am told.
My mammy belonged to white people back in Alabama when she was born, down in the southern part I think, for she told me that after she was a sizeable girl her white people moved into the eastern part of Alabama where there was a lot of Creeks. Some of them Creeks was mixed up with the whites, and some of the big men in the Creeks who come to talk to her master was almost white, it looked like. "My white folks moved around a lot when I was a little girl", she told me.
When mammy was about 10 or 12 years old some of the Creeks begun to come out to the Territory in little bunches. They wasn't the ones who was taken out here by the soldiers and contractor men, they come on ahead by themselves and most of them had plenty of money, too. A Creek come to my mammy's master and bought her to bring out here, but she heard she was being sold and run off into the woods. There was an old clay pit, dug way back into a high bank, where the slaves had been getting clay to mix with hog hair scrapings to make chinking for the big log houses that they built for the master and the cabins they made for themselves. Well, my mammy run and hid way back in that old clay pit, and it was way after dark before the master and the other man found her.
The Creek man that bought her was a kind sort of a man, mammy said, and wouldn't let the master punish her. He took her away and was kind to her, but he decided she was too young to breed and he sold her to another Creek who had several slaves already, and he brought her out to the Territory.
The McIntosh men was the leaders in the bunch that come out at that time, and one of the bunch, named Jim Perryman, bought my mammy and married her to one of his "boys", but after he waited a while and she didn't have a baby he decided she was no good breeder and he sold her to Mose Perryman.
Mose Perryman was my master, and he was a cousin to Legus Perryman, who was a big man in the tribe. He was a lot younger than Mose, and laughed at Mose for buying my mammy, but he got fooled, because my mammy got married to Mose's slave boy Jacob, the way the slaves was married them days, and went ahead and had ten children for Mr. Mose.
Mose Perryman owned my pappy and his older brother, Hector, and one of the McIntosh men, Oona, I think his name was, owned my pappy's brother William. I can remember when I first heard about there was going to be a war. The older children would talk about it, but they didn't say it was a war all over the country. They would talk about a war going to be "back in Alabama", and I guess they had heard the Creeks talking about it that way.
When I was born we lived in the Choska bottoms, and Mr. Mose Perryman had a lot of land broke in all up and down the Arkansas river along there. After the War, when I had got to be a young woman, there was quite a settlement grew up at Choska right across the river east of where Haskell now is, but when I was a child before the war all the whole bottoms was marshy kind of wilderness except where farms had been cleared out. The land was very rich, and the Creeks who got to settle there were lucky. They always had big crops. All west of us was high ground, toward Gibson station and Fort Gibson, and the land was sandy. Some of the McIntoshes lived over that way, and my Uncle William belonged to one of them.
We slaves didn't have a hard time at all before the war. I have had people who were slaves of white folks back in the old states tell me that they had to work awfully hard and their masters were cruel to them sometimes, but all the Negroes I knew who belonged to Creeks always had plenty of clothes and lots to eat and we all lived in good log cabins we built. We worked the farm and tended to the horses and cattle and hogs, and some of the older women worked around the owner's house, but each Negro family looked after a part of the fields and worked the crops like they belonged to us.
When I first heard talk about the war the slaves were allowed to go and see one another sometimes and often they were sent on errands several miles with a wagon or on a horse, but pretty soon we were all kept at home, and nobody was allowed to come around and talk to us. But we heard what was going on.
The McIntosh men got nearly everybody to side with them about the war, but we Negroes got word somehow that the Cherokees over back of Ft. Gibson was not going to be in the war, and that there were some Union people over there who would help slaves to get away, but we children didn't know anything about what we heard our parents whispering about, and they would stop if they heard us listening. Most of the Creeks who lived in our part of the country, between the Arkansas and the Verdigris, and some even south of the Arkansas, belonged to the Lower Creeks and sided with the South, but down below us along the Canadian River they were Upper Creeks and there was a good deal of talk about them going with the North. Some of the Negroes tried to get away and go down to them, but I don't know of any from our neighborhood that went to them.
Some Upper Creeks came up into the Choska bottoms talking around among the folks there about siding with the North. They were talking, they said, for old man Gouge, who was a big man among the Upper Creeks. His Indian name was Opoeth-le-ye-hola, and he got away into Kansas with a big bunch of Creeks and Seminoles during the war.
Before that time, I remember one night my uncle William brought another Negro man to our cabin and talked a long time with my pappy, but pretty soon some of the Perryman Negroes told them that Mr. Mose was coming down and they went off into the woods to talk. But Mr. Mose didn't come down. When pappy came back Mammy cried quite a while, and we children could hear them arguing late at night. Then my uncle Hector slipped over to our cabin several times and talked to pappy, and mammy began to fix up grub, but she didn't give us children but a little bit of it, and told us to stay around with her at the cabin and not go playing with the other children.
Then early one morning, about daylight, old Mr. Mose came down to the cabin in his buggy, waving a shot gun and hollering at the top of his voice. I never saw a man so mad in all my life, before nor since!
He yelled in at mammy to "git them children together and git up to my house before I beat you and all of them to death!" Mammy began to cry and plead that she didn't know anything, but he acted like he was going to shoot sure enough, so we all ran to mammy and started for Mr. Mose's house as fast as we could trot.
We had to pass all the other Negro cabins on the way, and we could see that they were all empty, and it looked like everything in them had been tore up. Straw and corn shucks all over the place, where somebody had tore up the mattresses, and all the pans and kettles gone off the outside walls where they used to hang them.
At one place we saw two Negro boys loading some iron kettles on a wagon, and a little further on was some boys catching chickens in a yard, but we could see all the Negroes had left in a big hurry.
I asked mammy where everybody had gone and she said, "Up to Mr. Mose's house, where we are going. He's calling us all in."
"Will pappy be up there too?" I asked her.
"No. Your pappy and your Uncle Hector and your Uncle William and a lot of other menfolks won't be here any more. They went away. That's why Mr. Mose is so mad, so if any of you younguns say anything about any strange men coming to our place I'll break your necks!" Mammy was sure scared!
We all thought sure she was going to get a big whipping, but Mr. Mose just looked at her a minute and then told her to get back to the cabin and bring all the clothes, and bed ticks and all kinds of cloth we had and come back ready to travel.
"We're going to take all you black devils to a place where there won't no more of you run away!" he yelled after us. So we got ready to leave as quick as we could. I kept crying about my pappy, but mammy would say, "Don't you worry about your pappy, he's free now. Better be worrying about us. No telling where we all will end up!" There was four or five Creek families and their Negroes all got together to leave, with all their stuff packed in buggies and wagons, and being toted by the Negroes or carried tied on horses, jack asses, mules and milk cattle. I reckon it was a funny looking sight, or it would be to a person now; the way we was all loaded down with all manner of baggage when we met at the old ford across the Arkansas that lead to the Creek Agency. The Agency stood on a high hill a few miles across the river from where we lived, but we couldn't see it from our place down in the Choska bottoms. But as soon as we got up on the upland east of the bottoms we could look across and see the hill.
When we got to a grove at the foot of the hill near the agency Mr. Mose and the other masters went up to the Agency for a while. I suppose they found out up there what everybody was supposed to do and where they was supposed to go, for when we started on it wasn't long until several more families and their slaves had joined the party and we made quite a big crowd.
The little Negro boys had to carry a little bundle apiece, but Mr. Mose didn't make the little girls carry anything and let us ride if we could find anything to ride on. My mammy had to help lead the cows part of the time, but a lot of the time she got to ride an old horse, and she would put me up behind her. It nearly scared me to death, because I had never been on a horse before, and she had to hold on to me all the time to keep me from falling off. Of course I was too small to know what was going on then, but I could tell that all the masters and the Negroes seemed to be mighty worried and careful all the time.
Of course I know now that the Creeks were all split up over the war, and nobody was able to tell who would be friendly to us or who would try to poison us or kill us, or at least rob us. There was a lot of bushwhacking all through that country by little groups of men who was just out to get all they could. They would appear like they was the enemy of anybody they run across, just to have an excuse to rob them or burn up their stuff. If you said you was with the South they would be with the North and if you claimed to be with the Yankees they would be with the South, so our party was kind of upset all the time we was passing through the country along the Canadian. That was where old Gouge had been talking against the South. I've heard my folks say that he was a wonderful speaker, too.
We all had to move along mighty slow, on account of the ones on foot, and we wouldn't get very far in one day, then we Negroes had to fix up a place to camp and get wood and cook supper for everybody. Sometimes we would come to a place to camp that somebody knew about and we would find it all tromped down by horses and the spring all filled in and ruined. I reckon old Gouge's people would tear up things when they left, or maybe some Southern bushwhackers would do it. I don't know which.
When we got down to where the North York runs into the Canadian we went around the-place where the Creek town was. There was lots of Creeks down there who was on the other side, so we passed around that place and forded across west of there. The ford was a bad one, and it took us a long time to get across. Everybody got wet and a lot of the stuff on the wagons got wet. Pretty soon we got down into the Chickasaw country, and everybody was friendly to us, but the Chickasaw people didn't treat their slaves like the Creeks did. They was more strict, like the people in Texas and other places. The Chickasaws seemed lighter color than the Creeks but they talked more in Indian among themselves and to their slaves. Our masters talked English nearly all the time except when they were talking to Creeks who didn't talk good English, and we Negroes never did learn very good Creek. I could always understand it, and can yet, a little, but I never did try to talk it much. Mammy and pappy used English to us all the time.
Mr. Mose found a place for us to stop close to Fort Washita, and got us places to stay and work. I don't know which direction we were from Fort Washita, but I know we were not very far. I don't know how many years we were down in there, but I know it was over two for we worked on crops at two different places, I remember. Then one day Mr. Mose came and toll us that the war was over and that we would have to root for ourselves after that. Then he just rode away and I never saw him after that until after we had got back up into the Choska country. Mammy heard that the Negroes were going to get equal rights with the Creeks, and that she should go to the Creek Agency to draw for us, so we set out to try to get back.
We started out on foot, and would go a little ways each day, and mammy would try to get a little something to do to get us some food. Two or three times she got paid in money, so she had some money when we got back. After three or four days of walking we came across some more Negroes who had a horse, and mammy paid them to let us children ride and tie with their children for a day or two. They had their children on the horse, so two or three little ones would get on with a larger one to guide the horse and we would ride a while and get off and tie the horse and start walking on down the road. Then when the others caught up with the horse they would ride until they caught up with us. Pretty soon the old people got afraid to have us do that, so we just led the horse and some of the little ones rode it.
We had our hardest times when we would get to a river or big creek. If the water was swift the horse didn't do any good, for it would shy at the water and the little ones couldn't stay on, so we would have to just wait until someone came along in a wagon and maybe have to pay them with some of our money or some of our goods we were bringing back to haul us across. Sometimes we had to wait all day before anyone would come along in a wagon.
We were coming north all this time, up through the Seminole Nation, but when we got to Weeleetka we met a Creek family of freedmen who were going to the Agency too, and mammy paid them to take us along in their wagon.
When we got to the Agency mammy met a Negro who had seen pappy and knew where he was, so we sent word to him and he came and found us. He had been through most of the war in the Union army. When we got away into the Cherokee country some of them called the "Pins" helped to smuggle him on up into Missouri and over into Kansas, but he soon found that he couldn't get along and stay safe unless he went with the Army. He went with them until the war was over, and was around Gibson quite a lot. When he was there he tried to find out where we had gone but said he never could find out. He was in the battle of Honey Springs, he said, but never was hurt or sick. When we got back together we cleared a selection of land a little east of the Choska bottoms, near where Clarksville now is, and farmed until I was a great big girl.
I went to school at a little school called Blackjack school. I think it was a kind of mission school and not one of the Creek nation schools, because my first teacher was Miss Betty Weaver and she was not a Creek but a Cherokee. Then we had two white teachers, Miss King and John Kernan, and another Cherokee was in charge. His name was Ross, and he was killed one day when his horse fell off a bridge across the Verdigris, on the way from Tullahassee to Gibson Station. When I got to be a young woman I went to Okmulgee and worked for some people near there for several years, then I married Tate Grayson. We got our freedmen's allotments on Mingo Creek, east of Tulsa, and lived there until our children were grown and Tate died, then I came to live with my daughter in Tulsa.


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Binomial problems: Mean and standard deviation
Suppose that the New England Colonials baseball team is equally likely to win any particular game as not to win it. Suppose also that we choose a random sample of Colonials games. Estimate the number of games in the sample that the Colonials win by giving the mean of the relevant distribution (that is, the expectation of the relevant random variable). Do not round your response. Quantify the uncertainty of your estimate by giving the standard deviation of the distribution. Round your response to at least three decimal places.
I've calculated the mean to be $10 (np=20*0.5)$. The short cut for calculating the variance of a binomial distribution is $np(1-p)$, but can you show me how to use the standard discrete distribution formula for variance ($Var(X) = E(X^2) - \mu^2$)to calculate variance in this case?


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PROUD Black Country folk are showing they ay bin missin' out on a wheelie novel idea for brightening up our streets.
Wheelie bin stickers with house numbers featuring the region's flag are the latest innovation from the man behind the Black Country Festival and he has been inundated with orders.
Artist, singer and songwriter Black Country Gaz is selling the stickers for 99p each on the ebay website and he says his printer has been running non-stop.
Gaz said: "I have just been blown away to sell so many, I only expected to do two or three. The idea just came to me, it just happened and people started saying where do I get that."
Around 500,000 homes in the Black Country's four boroughs have a wheelie bin and Gaz, from Pensnett, says in the short time they have been on sale stickers have been ordered by people from around the UK and beyond.
He added: "I'm not sure what I would do if I sold half-a-million, I'd love to see a photo of someone in America with one on their bin as it is waiting to be collected on the sidewalk."
Profits from sales of the stickers will be ploughed back into the month-long festival's organising group which aims to help, encourage and advise anyone who wishes to put an event on during the Black Country Festival.
The festival will take place throughout July and will include Black Country day on Monday July 14.
Gaz was also quick to dismiss a recent plan to rename his beloved Black Country 'Greater Birmingham'.
He said: "I laughed when I heard they wanted to call the Black Country 'Greater Birmingham', it woe happen aer kid."
Black Country flags are also available costing £5 from www.blackcountryfestival.co.uk
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My Online Male Courtesans, Their Idiocy
Yes, *my* online *male courtesans*. Not G.'s. Mine.
Since I've joined Facebook, I get a pretty decent amount of requests for people to become my friends. And considering my profile picture could be a little misleading (and that the average IQ of the world's population depressingly seems to be going down at rocket-speed), guess what percentage of that charming population is male?
Bottom line, every time I connect, I have idiots (in general) asking me immediately for online sex, or private encounters, or trying to "charm" (laughing my ass off here) me with the dumbest pick up lines ever invented.
I thought I'd do a small compilation of these, but I could not resist but to post the last one I received:
hey...my gf is goin out of town next month...let me know if your free?...can meet up sometime...stayin at orchard rd..cheers
Isn't that plain sweet? Not only that guy wants to pay for sex (ethics subject to debate here...), but also obviously only does it behind his girlfriend's back, and most importantly is sending that to a dude (me) who quite despises this job and even more the gentlemen like him on the other side.
That picture was just so surrealistic that I couldn't help to laugh...
That being said, sometimes some interesting conversations come out of these improbable encounters, and idiots like the one I just mentioned probably wouldn't even go as far as to buy sex from me if I really were an escort and are just looking around and satisfying their curiosity. And the rest are just lame online players who are lurking around for some hypothetic bimbo dream girl who would be hovering around the Facebook limbos, waiting for such a desirable White Knight.
It sort of makes you loose all hope and respect in humanity.
Anyway, sorry for staying below the radar for a while. I haven't been reading nor writing in almost a month, waiting for G. to come back. Well, actually I have a few things lined up, that I wrote during the last month, but I never got around to posting them. I'll try to do that soon and tell you about what happen to G., me, and us in general lately. And until then I'll try to catch up with all the blogs and articles I haven't been reading.
In the meantime, I'll see who else wants to date me online, or wonders if I do bareback or if I would be available on Friday for Hell knows what...


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But one thing seems clear: he did not voluntarily step down from the presidency. He was forced out, and the United States helped force him out. We know from press reports that the United States government was in control of Aristide's security. There were no security problems for American citizens, embassy personnel, or anyone else our government wanted to protect. A handful of Marines were able to secure the airport. But Secretary of State Colin Powell informed Aristide that the United States would not protect him. In other words, you either resign and leave or you may be killed. Even worse, the Miami Herald reported on Monday that "the Bush administration blocked a last-minute attempt by [Aristide] to bolster his bodyguards." The Bush administration had already called for Aristide to resign. But the Administration has been working on toppling Aristide for the past three years, plunging the country into chaos in the process. The major international financial institutions (IFI's) -- including the IMF, World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, supported the administration's destabilization efforts by cutting off hundreds of millions of dollars in credit to one of the most desperately poor countries in the world. The pretext was a dispute over the election of seven senators of Aristide's party in 2001. Aristide offered every possible solution but it didn't matter. With Washington and the IFI's backing them, the opposition refused any agreement short of Aristide's resignation. This put the IFI's in the role of starving Haiti until its elected president resigned. This was a terrible crime, for which these institutions should be called to account, and added greatly to the misery and suffering of the Haitian people. The latest coup is in many ways a repeat of the military coup that overthrew Aristide in 1991. Although many Americans know that President Clinton sent 20,000 troops to restore Aristide to the presidency in 1994, they do not about Washington's role prior to that. The United States, which occupied Haiti militarily from 1915-1934 and had plenty of support for the murderous Duvaliers who ruled the country from 1956-1986, had a problem when Haiti held the first democratic election in its history. Aristide, a populist priest who preached liberation theology, was elected by a landslide in 1990. After serving seven months in office, he was overthrown by the military. The officers who led the military coup were, as later reported by the New York Times, on the payroll of the CIA. But the Washington connection did not end there. A death squad organization known by the French acronym F.R.A.P.H was formed, and murdered at least 3000 of Aristide's supporters over the next three years. The founder of the organization, Emanuel Constant, stated in an interview on CBS' 60 minutes that he was paid by the CIA to create and maintain the organization during the dictatorship. He now lives in New York. Constant's second in command, convicted murderer Louis-Jodel Chamblain, was one of the leaders of last week's insurrection. The New York Times report on Tuesday summed up the situation after the coup: "These men, whom Mr. Powell characterized last week as "thugs," and a few hundred of their followers are for now the domestic face of national security in Haiti." On Monday four men, thought to be supporters of Aristide, were found shot to death with their hands tied behind their backs. The Bush administration seems in no hurry to prevent the kind of atrocities that happened after the last coup. Some members of Congress, including Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, have called for an investigation of what happened to Aristide. But more countries must get involved. When Hugo Chavez of Venezuela was overthrown in April 2002, the Bush team supported the coup and pretended that Chavez had "resigned." But they were forced to reverse themselves after 19 Latin American countries, including Mexico and Brazil, condemned the coup. Where are these countries now? Mark Weisbrot is Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a nonpartisan think-tank in the nation's capital (www.cepr.net). Readers may write him at CEPR, 1621 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20009-1052 and e-mail him at email@example.com Related Link: The Haiti File -- Dissident Voice's Coverage of Haiti
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